Public employee strikes test already stressed budgets
Taxpayers face payroll strains as 1975 public sector labor unrest grows. Across cities from Birmingham to New York, police fire and sanitation workers strike or threaten action as states and municipalities grapple with slim revenues and voter resistance to tax hikes.
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Cleveland
Cambridge
Mass
Skokie
Ill
Albuquerque
San Francisco
Pennsylvania
New York
United States
Bureau of Labor Statistics
New York City
Antidotes for nihilism Needed in American Life
An essay contrasts cautions from Weimar with current U S trends. It argues nihilism threatens liberal politics, urges renewed authority of institutions, patriotism, and policy reforms in education health welfare housing to meet majority needs.
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Weimar
Germany
Weimar Germany
Chicago
America
Nixon
Ford
Vietnam
Word Sense and Verbal Forms in a Curious Dispatch
The piece ponders idioms and verb forms with examples including last straw and present past future tenses. It cites M O Bader and Mary E Ferguson, notes Amercian usage favors shorter verb forms, and jokes about coinage for a 250th anniversary in 2026 with a Potter’s Field address.
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Mary E. Ferguson
Northfield
N. J
Potter's Field
New York Times Syndicate
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